CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Following the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. story last month in Las Vegas, President Trump refused to talk about whether or not the United States has a gun problem.

After a man opened fire Sunday at a Texas church, killing 26 people, Trump still doesn't want to talk about it.

"Mental health is your problem here, he said at a news conference in Tokyo Monday. "This was a very, based on preliminary reports, a very deranged individual, a lot of problems over a long period of time. We have a lot of mental health problems in our country, as do other countries.

"But this isn't a guns situation."

Trump is correct about the prevalence of mental illness. Nearly one of five Americans experiences mental illness in a given year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.

While that number is comparable to mental illness rates in other Western countries, it does not explain why there are more mass shootings here than anywhere else or that we are the most armed nation in the world.

Any time there is one of these tragedies, the topic of gun control is inevitably brought up, eliciting strong opinions on both sides.

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